FLY TAilwheel

Earn a tailwheel endorsement in either our Citabria or Scout.  The Citabria is a great beginner tailwheel, requiring more attention to aircraft control, good all around performance, high useful load, and forgiving characteristics, while allowing access to places you can't go in a typical trainer tailwheel. 

Fly with us to gain industry knowledge and learn from highly experienced tailwheel pilots, getting more than just a logbook endorsement!

What's the difference?  The Citabria is an advanced derivative of the Aeronca Champ, with a larger engine (150hp), better real-world training characteristics, and aerobatic capability. The Scout is a larger version of the Citabria, optimized for backcountry flying as a utility airplane.  With an even higher useful load, stronger taller gear, and a 180hp engine, the Scout can carry more, go farther.  Both aircraft are currently supported by American Champion, making maintenance much easier than a vintage aircraft.

Already have your tailwheel endorsement? Want to build more advanced tailwheel skills? Our Boeing Stearman will quickly identify weak areas to train and reward good technique. 

We are offering flight instruction by the hour, with ground instruction as required. Come get in the air with us and fly our open cockpit warbird!

Interested in learning to fly? Come take to the skies in the original military primary trainer, our 1943 Boeing Stearman. The ultimate first flight lesson experience with an open cockpit!

Your discovery lesson will cover a half an hour of ground training and a half an hour of flight time, as well as your first logbook!

Our Citabria is the perfect airplane to learn about spins and expanded pitch and bank angles.  You will experience first hand what it's like to safely demonstrate and recover from spins and accelerated stalls. This experience can count toward your FAR 61.183 endorsement.

Our Scout can be equipped with high flotation tundra tires to allow it to safely visit rough or soft unprepared locations .  We can show you how to safely plan, execute, and recover from a visit to remote airfields in New England.

When the snow allows, our Scout can also switch over to TrickAir penetration skis during the winter. Enabling the same type of backcountry experience in different conditions on a wider variety of locations.